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Jonathan Gilligan
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Integrating social & natural sciences & modeling to study impacts & responses to climate change | Behavioral approaches to climate policy | Nashville TN | They/them 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ genderqueer | Jew | Impervious to onions and mustard | https://jonathangilligan.org .. more

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
I have a new paper in Nature Climate Change (co-authored with many colleagues and led by Bishwajit Mallick): "Future-making beyond (Im)mobility through tethered resilience".

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Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience - Nature Climate Change
Adaptation to climate change goes beyond the migration–non-migration divide. Families and communities combine mobility with rootedness, drawing on cultural ties, intergenerational learning, and lived ...
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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 9h
I'll be there. I'd love to connect.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 10h
If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle, it better guarantee favorable treatment from the Supreme Court for years to come.
Clarence Thomas standing next to the RV that Harlan Crow financed for him.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 13h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.

Sun Ra
Elvis Costello
Ethel Cain
Charli XCX
Richard Thompson

Bonus entries:

Taj Mahal
Cory Wong
Jason Isbell
Grateful Dead
Upsahl
thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

Metallica
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Judas Priest
Aerosmith
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

Metallica
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Judas Priest
Aerosmith
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —

NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 16h
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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 16h
OTOH, according to this Electrek story, Tesla robotaxis get in 16 times more crashes than the average human driver.

Autonomous vehicle safety shows a lot of difference from one brand to another.

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jgilligan.org Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 10d
Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."

Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 20h
My frustration is that the folks we want in our big tent can't agree on what the common ground must include and what principles we should abandon in order to build a big movement.

Something that appears to me as unnecessary beef may be life-or-death to others and vice-versa.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 20h
I feel similarly, but there's a big obstacle in that there is no consensus on distinguishing "unnecessary ridiculous beef" from crucial matters of principle.

Consider Ezra Klein saying that trans rights and abortion rights are unnecessary beef, and that Charlie Kirk should be welcome.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 22h
If you're having worm problems, I feel bad for you, son.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
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Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience | Jonathan Gilligan
www.jonathangilligan.org

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
We argue that tethered resilience, which reflects people's attachment to their native communities and place, has important implications for understanding interactions between climate change, migration, resilience, and adaptation.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
NaTzi

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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There is a new word for a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, which is almost everyone (GREAT POLICY IS THE KEY!). It is, TEPUBLICAN??? Or, TPUBLICAN???

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d
He also appears to be expecting a flood.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
NASHVILLE Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social on voting for @aftynbehn.bsky.social in TN-7: “You will never have a chance to have as much impact in an election as you do right now.”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2d
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 3d
Pink Popey Club, I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Popey Club, I'm gonna keep on dancing down in
West Vatican, I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Popey Club, Pink Popey Club!
Pope Leo XIV looks like he's singing into the microphone on front of him

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 3d
For the US, perhaps, but global coal consumption just keeps growing. It set new records in 2022, again in 2023, and once again in 2024.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d
Congressional redistricting is monumentally important. But for Black people in places like Fayette County, TN, it is the County Commn where the stakes are highest.

What SCOTUS does in Louisiana v Calláis may threaten Black representation across the rural South.

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Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
Also...
Cover of Michael Spivak, _Calculus_, 4th edition.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
what are those ✨nostalgic✨ textbooks for you? not the most useful textbooks, or the ones you liked the most, but the ones that really take you back...
Cover of Herbert Goldstein, _Classical Mechanics_, second edition.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
Tired: Logical positivism
Wired: Positivism mit Schlagobers
alanrichardson.bsky.social Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
AI for the win again
• Bing Al Overview The "Vienna circle" likely refers to Vienna's historic Ringstrasse cafes, such as Café Schwarzenberg and Café Landtmann, which are located along the famous city boulevard. These are traditional Viennese coffee houses, known for their elegant atmosphere, history, and as important social and intellectual hubs.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
Entire shelving unit in the closet filled with trays holding cables and wall warts, sorted by type.

Reposted by Jonathan M. Gilligan, Martin Lenz

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
AI for the win again
• Bing Al Overview The "Vienna circle" likely refers to Vienna's historic Ringstrasse cafes, such as Café Schwarzenberg and Café Landtmann, which are located along the famous city boulevard. These are traditional Viennese coffee houses, known for their elegant atmosphere, history, and as important social and intellectual hubs.

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Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 4d
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Reposted by Jonathan M. Gilligan, Annalee Newitz

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"

Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets

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A 2024 story about climate change memes from the non-profit Outrider quotes “Juliet Pinto, a Professor of Psychology” at Pennsylvania State University. I emailed Pinto, who is in fact a communications professor at Pennsylvania State University. “I have not spoken with any reporter about that piece of research, and I am not a professor of psychology,” she wrote back. The piece also quotes “Terry Collins, a climate scientist and professor of environmental science at the University of California.” I could not find anyone of that description, but Terry Collins, the director of the institute of green science at Carnegie Mellon, said he’s never communicated with Goldiee.